India

A 72-year-old man died on Tuesday after reportedly suffering a heart attack while standing in a bank queue in adjoining Palghar district, police said.

The matter came to light after one Pankaj Kumar attempted to use the new Rs 2000 currency note to buy groceries at a market in the Dumra area.

Ironically, the high court, which had earlier laid down a law in this regard, reduced the amount of compensation to the rape victim from Rs 15 lakh awarded by the trial court to Rs 7.5 lakh, saying the higher amount went against the 2011 compensation sche...

Long queues outside banks in Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) were a common sight on Tuesday as they opened after a gap of three days.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Vice President Hamid Ansari and other parliamentarians on Tuesday paid tributes to the martyrs of the 2001 attack on Parliament.

The World Bank has paused the separate processes initiated by India and Pakistan under the Indus Waters Treaty to allow the two countries to consider alternative ways to resolve their disagreements.

Fog conditions prevailed in Delhi-NCR on Tuesday morning affecting flight operation and train services.

To ascertain the amount of counterfeit currency, the Reserve Bank has asked all banks to send details of all fake notes detected during exchange and deposits of defunct old high-value notes post demonetisation.

Legion, the group of anonymous hackers who compromised the Twitter accounts of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party and fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya, has now threatened to target the Sansad.nic.in domain that hosts email IDs of members of Lok Sabha and...

The very Severe cyclonic storm, Vardah, is likely to cross north Tamil Nadu/south Andhra Pradesh coast on Monday afternoon, Meteorological Department Director S Balachandran said.

Telangana's IT Minister KT Rama Rao held a review meeting with I-T Department officials regarding the development of T-Wallet mobile application and instructed them to give utmost priority to data security and user privacy issues in the application.

During the hearing, Railways officials stated that Katela was asked to deposit copying fee Rs 750 for reservation chart as per Railway Rules but the appellant did not respond to that letter.

The CBI on Saturday again interrogated Biju Janata Dal MP Rabindra Jena for his alleged links to a multi-crore chit fund scam in Odisha.

Pawan Ruia was arrested from his residence in Sundar Nagar area in the national capital this morning, a senior CID officer said.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi has told the Supreme Court that around Rs 12 lakh crore in scrapped currency has been deposited in the banking system, which exceeds the government’s estimates for cash to be returned.

As part of the programme, residents and alerts about crime in their area will share information with the patrolling party over tea, the SP said.